System and method for collaborative distributed generation, conversion, quality and processing optimization, enhancement, correction, mastering, and other advantageous processing of three dimensional media content

Abstract

The present invention is directed to a system and method for enabling multiple parties to access and utilize, separately, in parallel, and/or on a collaborative basis, a plurality of distributed modular 3D content-centric solutions that are operable to greatly improve the quality and impact of 3D media content, while decreasing the required levels of computing power, and lowering the complexity of the necessary 3D media playback and display solutions, thus maximizing the 3D experience produced therefrom. The inventive system and method facilitate and enable multiple parties to work individually or to collaborate, in a scalable and managed manner and at varying degrees, in customizable modular processes of generating, converting into, and/or beneficially processing 3D media content to produce enhanced 3D media content, and thereby greatly improving and maximizing the 3D experience produced therefrom. In various embodiments of the inventive system and method, a centralized system is provided for managing and selectively controlling access to, and utilization of, the plurality of the modular 3D content-centric solutions by a plurality of pre-registered users, and to manage 3D content-related projects by distributing individual tasks, along with appropriate access to necessary 3D content-centric solution module(s), to at least one of the plural pre-registered users. In other embodiments of the present invention, a centralized 3D content generation/conversion/processing (G/C/P) system is provided for managing 3D content-related G/C/P projects and for distributing various tasks for such projects for performance by at least one of the plural pre-registered users by enabling access thereof to necessary 3D content-centric solution module(s).

1 . A distributed system for improving the efficiency, quality, and/or impact of a 3D experience capable of being provided to at least one viewer of 3D content media, comprising:
 at least one system component operable to enable automatic, semi-automatic or user-controlled selective performance of 3D content processing and/or settings/parameter configuration functions on at least one predetermined 3D content media element,   wherein at least one of said at least one system component is further operable to determine and implement selective or optimal storage, transmittal, and application(s) of 3D content processing/settings/parameter/profile configuration(s), prior to, or during display of corresponding 3D content media to one or more viewers thereof; and   at least one means for selectively enabling at least one predefined user of a plurality of pre-registered users to access and utilize at least one of said at least one system components in accordance with at least one predetermined component access protocol.